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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Setting
Conceit
Enjambment
Sonnet
2. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Fiction
Assonance
Personification
External Conflict
3. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Allegory
Rhythm
Understatement
Fiction
4. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Denouement
Hyperbole
Convention
Character
5. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Satire
Setting
Literal Language
Scenes
6. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Cliche
Hyperbole
Ode
Climax
7. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Theme
Iamb
Trochee
Free Verse
8. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Syntax
Suspense
Lyric Poem
Understatement
9. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Couplet
Symbolism
Rising Action
10. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Figurative Language
Parody
Persona
11. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Character
Theme
Convention
Conflict
12. The time and place of a story or play.
Setting
Assonance
Literal Language
Falling Meter
13. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Act
Situational Irony
Conceit
Elision
14. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.
Verbal Irony
Climax
Tone
Falling Action
15. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Metonymy
Syntax
Denotation
Situational Irony
16. A four line stanza in a poem.
Audience
Cliche
Sestet
Quatrain
17. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Ballad
Literal Language
Convention
Falling Meter
18. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Synecdoche
Narrator
Foreshadowing
Cliche
19. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Octave
Persona
Understatement
20. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Dialect
Imagery
Suspense
Sonnet
21. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Sestina
Literal Language
Dactyl
Alliteration
22. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Stereotype
Setting
Aphorism
Ode
23. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Convention
Syntax
Symbolism
Rising Action
24. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.
Author's Purpose
Octave
Dialogue
Alliteration
25. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Legend
Pyrrhic
Foot
Subplot
26. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Mood
Complication
1st Person
Understatement
27. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Elegy
Free Verse
Convention
Characterization
28. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Couplet
Ode
Voice
Rising Action
29. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.
External Conflict
Paradox
Mood
Spondee
30. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Caesura
Onomatopoeia
Voice
Ode
31. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Literal Language
Quatrain
Spondee
Villanelle
32. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Dactyl
Parallelism
Analogy
Parable
33. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Epigram
Foot
Assonance
Personification
34. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Parody
Irony
Iamb
Apostrophe
35. The main character of a literary work.
Irony
Blank Verse
Dialect
Protagonist
36. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Quatrain
Conflict
3rd Person (Limited)
Legend
37. A character struggles against some outside force.
Myth
Structure
Foil
External Conflict
38. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Parallelism
Pyrrhic
Stereotype
Ballad
39. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Fiction
Climax
Ballad
1st Person
40. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Trochee
Denouement
Metaphor
Alliteration
41. Broken down acts.
Parody
Imagery
Scenes
Ode
42. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Subject
Synecdoche
Catharsis
Anapest
43. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Image
Metonymy
Symbol
Persona
44. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Rhythm
Solioquy
Personification
Aside
45. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Pyrrhic
Figurative Language
Complication
Characterization
46. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Free Verse
Mood
Paradox
Parody
47. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Couplet
Metaphor
Irony
Lyric Poem
48. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Myth
Parallelism
Tone
Caesura
49. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
Iamb
Analogy
Denotation
Legend
50. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Figurative Language
Free Verse
Reversal
Dactyl
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